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'Sometimes it feels like little has changed since I was at school in the 80s.'

On Twitter, Jamie Care added: 'Absolutely shocking sweeping statements here! What other bigoted nonsense is being taught to children in 2018?'

And Abraham Glover said: 'The joke is this is so poorly written they have summed up the Caribbean and African families in two paragraphs that's over 70 countries with multiples more ethnic groups.

'Racism through ignorance.'

Binta Sultan added: 'This is absolutely abhorrent. How is it allowed to be used for 'education'? It's one of the most racist pieces of writing I have seen in a long time.

'There are pretty terrible things written about African, Caribbean and Chinese communities in this excerpt alone.'

According to Runnymede, the UK's main race equality think tank, 59 per cent of black Caribbean, 44 per cent of black African, and 61 per cent of children in mixed race households grow up in single parent families, with nine out of ten headed by a woman.

Hodder Education says it has stopped sale of the book whilst a review is underway

The overall proportion of children in the UK living with a lone parent is 22 per cent.

Now Hodder Education says that it has stopped the sale of the book whilst a review is underway.

On Twitter, the official account said: 'We are taking this feedback very seriously; we will be working with the authors and reviewing the entire textbook as a result of the concerns raised.

'Meanwhile we have stopped supplying the book for sale.'

An AQA spokesman said it had raised concerns with Hodder Education following the outrage.

He said: 'We don't agree with any stereotypes and there's nothing about Caribbean families in our actual GCSE Sociology syllabus.

'We don't produce textbooks ourselves - but we'll speak with the publisher of this book about these concerns.'

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Publishers withdraw GCSE textbook which said men are 'largely absent' from Caribbean families